Unit 11 Quiz

Goal 1: Addressing Climate Change and Improving Air Quality
Goal 2: Safeguarding America's Waters
Goal 3: Cleaning Up Communities and Advancing Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensuring the Safety of Chemicals and Preventing Pollution

Which government entity is responsible for achieving these goals?

• National Park Service

• Department of Homeland Security

• Environment Protection Agency

• Federal Emergency Management Agency

How did the Endangered Species Act affect decision making in the U.S. government?

• U.S. government agencies must consider how any actions may threaten the habitat of animals in danger of extinction.

• U.S. government agencies must seek presidential approval for any expansion of federal sites and buildings.

• U.S. government agencies must fund scientific research into improving the sustainability of endangered species.

• U.S. government agencies cannot commit to any actions that may harm the environment.

These gasoline rationing stamps were printed beginning in January 1974, but were never used. Which situation led the U.S. government to print these coupons?

• The economic collapse of the Soviet Union caused by increased defense spending

• A shortage of consumer goods following the end of a global conflict

• Economic deflation caused by increased trade globalization

• An embargo organized by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

Lines for gas such as the one in this photograph resulted from -

• the dissolution of Standard Oil Company

• an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico

• the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline

• an embargo by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Teapot Dome: In 1922, President Warren Harding's Interior Secretary Albert Fall was caught taking bribes from private oil companies related to oil leases. In 1929, Fall was sentenced to prison. Watergate: On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel. It was later discovered that President Richard Nixon had participated in covering up the White House connections to the break-in. Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. Which statement explains one effect of these two events?

• They reduced government regulation of the economy.

• They led to an increase in the size of the executive branch.

• They reduced public confidence in the federal government.

• They led the president to increase the use of the veto power.

Which of the following was the primary reason for the trends in public confidence from 1973 to 1976?

• The normalization of relations with China

• The explosion aboard Apollo 13

• The Watergate scandal

• The nuclear-power accident at Three Mile Island

Which quotation could most likely be attributed to Sandra Day O'Connor?

• The power I exert on the Court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

• I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

• I only knew that, as I was being arrested, that it was the very last time I would ever ride in humiliation of this kind.

Which is true about Sandra Day O'Connor?

• First woman named to the U.S. Supreme Court

• First woman nominated as a candidate for vice president

• First female member of the U.S. Senate

• First female elected to serve as governor of a state

What was the primary goal of discussions between these two leaders?

• To recognize the independence of former satellite states

• To reach a formal agreement on weapons control

• To negotiate the reunification of Germany

• To develop a global environmental-protection policy

Which reason has the U.S. government given for supporting Israel?

• Israel provided NATO with the majority of its oil.

• Israel was one of the few democracies in the Middle East.

• Israel fought on the side of the Allied nations during World War II.

• Israel was one of the world's largest importers of consumer goods.